This past week outgoing UNC@CH Chanc Holden Thorp sat down for a wide-ranging one-on-one interview with Chapel Hill media mogul Jim Heavner (WCHL et al). Jim played “Mike Wallace” and Holden was candid as he prepares to see The Old Welll in his rearview mirror.
A CLASSIC from 2013: He was an 18 year old Hoosier hotshot. In the Spring of 1950, young Neil joined the US Marines. Six months later he was on the frozen killing ground of The Chosin Reservoir.
America’s insatiable appetite for bestowing 15 minutes of celebrity chewed up how many “cinderellas” over the past two weeks….. devouring them like so many Fritos and cashews….. yum yum eat’em up.
There was a well-publicized panel on Athletics & Academics held at UNC@CH last Thursday. Those who knew that have wondered “was BobLee there?” and, if so, “will BobLee tell us what, if anything, it really amounted to?” Of Course and Of Course. That is why you visit here.
Well well…. our last column sure kicked over an anthill, huh? The name “BobLee” has seeped into some new nook & crannies and emerged with all sorts of colorful adjectives attached to it!….. hehehe. A few more transitional thoughts about UNC goings-on; and we will move on.
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Was AgentPierce too cynical re: UNC’s new chancellor? My compadre barbecued the dame from Dartmouth before she uttered her first pithy comment about how AWESOME UNC is then I spoke with various eye-witnesses to her introduction. AP understated this latest Flagshipian pratfall…..
Major League Baseball has a new contrived CRISIS not involving PEDs or the designated hitter. A contrived CRISIS in which Derek Jeter doesn’t “count”. I did not watch 30 seconds of the NCAA Finals. I wasn’t protesting anything. I did not know who won until Tuesday morning…
Over 50 years and not one fist fight. Not even one F-bomb. Over 300 mixed partisans of assorted sports allegiances and not one pair of beady eyes glared back at me…. not one set of clenched teeth. BobLee and The Raleigh Sports Club…. a synergy like blackstrap molasses on a warm biscuit.
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Roy Clogston never did “it”. Willis Casey, Jimmy V, Toddy, Les, even Uncle Jed never did “it”. On Tuesday, Kay Yow’s sister Frau became the FIRST NC State Athletics Director to ever fire a women’s basketball coach. Yes….. Kellie Harper is kaput!
It was “the black Jeff Withey” (aka Wilt Chamberlain) that said “no one pulls for Goliath”. The purest joy in sports, or any venture, is an underdog rises up to smite the giant. Undersized, outmanned, and so much the long shot the oddsmakers don’t even give odds.
THE most pressing issue in America today is – If Danica wins Daytona, will she kiss Miss Sprint in Victory Lane?…. so sue me if I’m wondering – If Holden wasn’t a good fit – what sorta Chanc SHOULD UNC go after?…… and here’s a headline that made me go OUCH!
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71 fan bases across America all agree that….. “we got jobbed by those damned NCAA selection guys”. They each have a mathematical opportunity to be 2013 National Champions, but will squander that joy by whining “we got put in the hardest bracket – UNFAIR whaaa!” ….. BobLee on relocating the ACC Tournament…. and a PS to AgentPierce’s phenomenal piece on Duke being “Too White”. ……
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On March 13, 2006 the phone rang at the Durham headquarters of Bunny Hole Entertainment (aka Allure Escorts). A young man’s voice ordered “two white strippers” for a party at 610 North Buchanan Boulevard, across from Duke’s East Campus. Happy 7th Anniversary.
EVERY Wednesday of Thanksgiving Week your local TV station(s) sends a junior info-babe to the airport for their annual “busiest airport day” story. Sports has its equivalent. EVERY UNC-Duke game we get the “Dookie V” article. Is Dick Vitale UNC fans’ version of John Swofford is for Wuffs?
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We shall leave Dean’s eternal destiny to a Higher Power. Such hypotheticals could take us in any number of socio-cultural directions well beyond theology. It’s 2013. Issues are no longer compartmentalized within well-defined topics – sports – politics – religion – pop culture – academia – ecology.